Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling

Source : Preheat Oven To 375 Spray 3 - 8 Inch Cake Pans Well With Bakers Sprayin A Bowl Whisk Together Flour Cocoa Powder Baking Powder And Salt And Sugarin An...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : August 13, 2026

Step:

  1. Preheat oven to 375. Spray 3 - 8 inch cake pans well with bakers spray

  2. In a bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder,baking powder and salt and sugar

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  3. In another bowl whisk the eggs with the milk,canola oil and vanilla, beat into flour mixture until smooth

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  5. Slowly beat in coffee until smooth batter will be very thin.

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  6. Pour into prepared pans and bake 22 to 25 minutes until a toothpick comes out just clean. Cool 15 minutes in pan then run a thin knife around edges of cake to unstick any edges of cake and remove from pan to cool completely

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  8. Make Strawberry Filling and Frosting

  9. Puree strawberries in a food processor and set adide

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  10. Beat together in a large bowl until smooth, cream cheese, marscapone cheese, butter and vanilla

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  11. Beat in strawberry puree

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  12. Slowly beat in confectioner's sugar until it is a nice spreading consistancy, add drops of red food color only if you want it pinker. Refrigerate if frosting seems soft to firm it up for about 1 hour for easier spreading

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  13. Assemble Cake

  14. Place 1 cake layer bottom up on serving plate add some Strawberry filling

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  16. Add second layer, bottom side up

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  17. Add more fillinhg

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  18. Add third layer, bottom up

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  19. Frost entire cake and decorate with sprinkles, Godiva Strawberry Cheesecaketruffles, halved and fresh strawberries

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Ingredients

  1. For Dark Chocolate Cake
  2. 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  3. 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, I used Hersheys special dark
  4. 11/2 teaspoon baking powder
  5. 1/2 teaspoin salt
  6. 2 ups granulated sugar
  7. 2 large eggs
  8. 1 cup milk
  9. 1/2 cup canola oil
  10. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  11. 1 cup brewed coffee at room temperature
  12. For Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling
  13. 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  14. 8 ounces marscapone chee, at room temperature
  15. 4 ounces (1 stick), salted butter, at room temperature
  16. 1 cup fresh strawberries
  17. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  18. 4 cups confectioner's sugar
  19. Garnish
  20. as needed pink sprinkles,
  21. 6 Godiva Strawberry Cheesecake truffle candies, halved
  22. as needed fresh strawberries

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